All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.