"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."

"Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal."

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final."

"I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good."

"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves — like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all."

"Have you ever had that feeling? That you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"

"Deep rivers run quiet."

"Nothing can wear you out like caring about people."

"The sadness will last forever."