The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature