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

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.”

“What's broken can always be fixed, what's fixed will always be broken.”

“He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course.This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!”