If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.