“I am happy today - completely happy - because I died twenty years ago; furthermore I'm happy because I die daily. Every day, at eleven o' clock, I've died twice........After eleven o'clock I'm done with dying for that day.”

“Blomst av bare klare ensomheterskal ditt beger fylle noens tørstmå du alltid danne torner førstFør du samler deg om dette ene:Å bli rose! - Du er mer alenemed verket i deg selv enn noen vetÅ blomst! Å rene ensomhet!”

“It doesn't matter what you love,it matters only that you love.”

“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.”

“I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.”

“I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.”

“I intend to live as a happy man, though I am not quite ready to live as one, which means I'm not quite ready to die; whatever it is, I'm working on it, trust me”