“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”

“The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of one's own will.”

“.. no true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style.”

“To overcome oneself, one must reconcile and end the battle between heart and mind.”

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”

“… what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.”

“one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started”

“In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.”

“Animals are innocence incarnate. This horse is like an enormous child, and if one wanted to point out life's innocence face to face, one would have to typify, not a little child, but a horse.”

“So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.”