“Why did you want to hurt me ? As if the distance were not enough, why do you make yourself even more distant in your letter, signing personal and family name ? Is it impossible that you - being so sensitive - are not aware of what you are doing, and therefore I must think that you did it on purpose, maybe to reproach me, without saying it, because in my most recent letters I signed my first name without my family name. Is this why you did it ?.. But I told you why I did it. If I was wrong, forgive me. It was to feel more like being with you, less distant; to be with you, at least in my letters, I, without family name, I, who have nobody anymore in my life who calls me and thinks of me without my family name, or without my qualification of professor, or of teacher, or of father. All right. I won’t do it anymore !”

“If I fail to be happy with myself that doesn’t mean I’m a negative person. I’m kind, I’m warm, and I’m aware of the places in me that needs a little more work. I just get a little bit sad sometimes for no reason at all, but you still can be happy with me. I’m still me despite my depression.”

“The writer who has no readers, whom only a few people know, is the true writer, for even though on the practical side this can be very unpleasant, one has the impression in such a case that one writes for oneself alone.”

“My only sorrow: my spiritual poverty. All day yesterday and today — obsessed with sex.”