“If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.”

“I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project.”

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

“The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.”

“If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I’m going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin my life if I had to live partially.”

“What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?”

“I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”