"Don't ask me to be happy. You know I can't be happy. I'm not made for that."

"The greatest thing is to be forgotten. I mean, to be truly forgotten. To have no trace, no memory, nothing."

"The best possible way to avoid the problem is to solve it."

"Silence is the only virtue."

"We are born astride of a grave, and a difficult birth at that. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps."