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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.