"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't try to make it popular. Don't try to make it like anything else. Instead, let it be your own. A wild, untamed thing."

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

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

"I am a stranger in my own land."

"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When it is done, when the night is past, it is gone like a dream."