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I don’t know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist – you either are or you aren’t – and if you are you’ll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m stupid.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.