"I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb."

"I am so afraid of everything. I am so afraid of nothing."

"I think I may well be a Jew."

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to …"

"I am a bundle of nerves and desires."