“I like to read becauseit kills me.”

“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me and…to kill themselves.”

“It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.”

“. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing”

“I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn.”