“I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.”

“It just seems like the more time I have on my hands, the less I do with it.”

“I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.”

“I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.”

“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.”

“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”