“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
“If you're going to try, go all the way.”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
“So long as we are alive, we might as well be alive.”
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met.”
“Time is the substance I am made of.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
“I can't go on. I'll go on.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, ist nur ein Dummkopf. Wer sie aber weiß und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.”
“Der Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen.”
“Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war.”
“Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.”
“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.”