"Here I was walking around so hungry that my intestines were squirming inside me like snakes, and I had no guarantee t…"

"It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has …"

"I walked very slowly, passed Majorstuen, continued onward, always onward, walked for hours, and finally got out to th…"

"Suddenly one or two good sentences occur to me, suitable for a sketch or story, nice linguistic flukes the likes of w…"

"Nothing helped; I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my fore…"

"I am not worthy to speak loudly of Adolf Hitler, nor do his life and deeds call for sentimental arousal. He was a war…"

"I sit there on the bench and write 1848 dozens of times; I write this number criss-cross in all possible shapes and w…"

"In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

"And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers an…"

"If only one had a piece of bread! One of those delicious little loaves of rye bread that you could munch on as you wa…"