One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an….

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are..

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I….

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised..

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time….

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you supp….

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, tha….

A true artist is an ugly man..

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character..

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one ….

Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify my….

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me..

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible….