“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”

“I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.”

“Always do what you're afraid to do.
…
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”

“Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.”

“I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.”

“I shrink it down by myself, actually. It's up to the schedule, so… If the artists or programmers say "no", then that's the answer. So it's kind of a mix. I always try to push a can-do attitude with them, you know?”

“I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.”

“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

“I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do.”