"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you"
"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."
"there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late"
"Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje."
"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."