Thomas Bernhard

“We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.”

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”

“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....”

“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”