
Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm
Bloomberg Business interview (2014)
Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm
“I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.”
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”
On Extended Wings (1985)
“I want to make my own life a masterpiece.”
Talks with Mussolini (1932), quoting earlier remarks
As quoted in " Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777927-4,00.html
1930s
Variant: I shall make my own life a masterpiece.
“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."
~ Hardy Cates”
Source: Sugar Daddy
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)