"Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

"I am a book that has not been written."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or no eyes."

"I am dirty, Felice, I am filthy, and I have to confess it to you. I have written to you so many lies, and have hidden away so much from you."

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."