“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...”

“Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.”

“I don't know all the answers. Nobody does; nobody can. Take hold of this, Niniane. Take hold of me, and don't let go for anything.”

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more”

“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter - as indissolubly as if they were conceived together…." - The Crack-Up”