“I am my own heir.”
“I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.”
“I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.”
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
“Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.”
“I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")”