"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."

"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would pick."

"I hate the world and almost everything in it."

"I felt like I was a prisoner, trapped in my own skin."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."