“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”