To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.