I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

As far back as I can remember myself — and I remember myself with lawless lucidity, I have been my own accomplice, who knows too much, and therefore is dangerous.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own — entirely my own.

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been the minding of my own business.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

I have a mind that belongs wholly to itself, and is accustomed to go its own way. Having never until this hour had a master or governor imposed on me, I have advanced as far as I pleased, and at my own pace. This has made me slack and unfit for the service of others; it has made me useless to any but myself.

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself — in my mind. Painfully conscious.

you have always been as my own. I am perplexed

I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.

you are whatever the company you keep is.