"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning."

"The best way to spend the day is to run it in such a way that you don't even need to remember it."

"All literature is a lie."

"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up…"

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."