“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.”

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”

“This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world”

“A surface separates inside from out and belongs no less to one than the other.”