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.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

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.

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

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.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

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