I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

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I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

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