“I am the creation of all the rivers I have known and the knowledge they've instilled: I am constant, adaptable, and strong-willed.”
“If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.”
“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
“The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.”
“I am not the river I am the net.”
“I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.”