“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

“Become who you are!”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

“Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. ”