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

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

“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....”