"I confess that I have no other method than the one I am employing."

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all the ancestors that…"

"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the numbers of men."

"Everything that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."

"Happiness is not a right, it is a habit."