“If you fictionalized my character, I could live a bit longer.”
“Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.”
“I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!”
“...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.”
“What does it say about me that I'm jealous of the lives of fictional characters?”
“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”