Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
Thomas BernhardThe only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.
Thomas BernhardWhat can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.
Thomas Bernhard