There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

Things just are the way they are... However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!

She wasn’t pretty, and she didn’t even bother to try to fit in. She didn’t care to.

One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.