“Art saved my life”
“I put my genius into my life, not into my art.”
“Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.”
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”
“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings.”