"The greatest joy is to be able to overcome your fear."

"My whole being is a wound."

"I am a writer, but I am not a writer. I am a human being."

"I do not want to be a burden on anyone. I want to be able to live alone and to die alone."

"I am thinking of the possibility of writing a book about myself, that is, about this self that has become so difficult and enigmatic to me."