His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

If you want enemies$$$ excel your friends; but if you want friends$$$ let your friends excel you.

Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion$$$ well$$$ he leaves me cold.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man$$$ because he is the only creature to insist on having one.

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through$$$ maybe$$$ but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.