"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

"The fact is that all writers create their precursors."

"I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost."

"The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do."

"I am a man of the nineteenth century, living in the twentieth."