"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."

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

"I am so utterly a hope. I am so utterly a despair."

"I want to write because I have the urge to create something that will make people question. I want to write because I have the urge to create something that will make people wonder. I want to write be…"

"I long for someone to 'be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room…'"