"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger."

"I have always been more interested in books than in people."

"The only way to be happy is to be ignorant."

"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat."

"There are some people who are born to be unhappy, and I am one of them."