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

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."

"If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier."

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad."

"If I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotions and tears all the time."