"The animal wrestles the human in me."

"I do not want to be a burden on anyone. I want to be able to live alone and to die alone."

"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenceless. When sleep does not come, it is because I have been too defenceless, too open, too naked to the world."

"I have not been able to write a single line for two months. My head is empty, my heart is empty, my soul is empty."

"I am not a writer, I am a written one."