"Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts."

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."

"So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger — because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."