I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

Without dignity, identity is erased.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.