“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.”

“Did you ever have a conversation with different parts of yourself. Try it. It can be fun. You never know what you have to say to yourself.”

“Losing yourself in words is like finding yourself stuck in thepages. But never forget for every blank page you have theopportunity to release your own imagination.”

“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following his or her train thought and you accompany each other for weeks on end.”

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”