"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

"To be a man is to be an argument."

"My greatest fear is not death, but oblivion."

"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."

"I am an old man, and I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."