“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
“Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....”
“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.”
“My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.”
“I am my own heir.”
“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.”