"I have been dead for a long time. I have been dead since I was born."

"I am dirty, Felice, I am filthy, and I have to confess it to you. I have written to you so many lies, and have hidden away so much from you."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

"What is the meaning of life? That it ends."

"I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else."