"I began to think about the nature of my own misery, and how I could get out of it."

"I am so hungry for a good man. I am so hungry for a good woman."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

"I am a genius of an artist; I have a genius for living."

"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 …"