"I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform."

"One who, alone, would be unconquerable. But he weakens himself with allegiances."

"I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence."

"I was never drawn to experiment with language; I take note of such experiments, but avoid them in my own writing. The…"

"The blind man is not blind by birth, but he became blind with little effort. He has a camera, he takes it everywhere,…"

"The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contai…"

"Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens."

"One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others."

"Whenever the truth threatens, he hides behind a thought."

"I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freed…"