"I am like a man who has built a house and then set fire to it."

"I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, which is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. My poor, dear Milena, you are only a woman, you are not a man, you do not understand that for a man there is alw…"

"I am a bad writer, but I am a good person."

"What is the good of a book without pictures or conversations?"

"The specter of death is not terrible, it is the inability to live that is terrible."