"The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born."

"I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."

"I inherited two of mankind's most frightful enemies - the heritage of consumption and insanity."

"To be an artist is to live with doubt."

"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head."