"I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one has ever heard."

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.…"

"I wish I could write to you, but I can't. I can only paint."

"Life insists on being my friend and my enemy."

"I adored him, but he was a fat, old toad."