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

“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“Interpreting myself, I always readMyself into my books. I clearly needSome help. But all who climb on their own wayCarry my image, too, into the breaking day.”

“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.”

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”

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

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