“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ”

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”

“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”

“If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?”

“Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.”

“I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.”

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.”