Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.