“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”

“I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.”