It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.