The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

I never wish to be easily defined.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.