“Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.”

“Just because I know what I want doesn't mean I can have it,”

“Just because I don't know how to work a toy, doesn't mean I don't want it in my toy box.”

“I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control. I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, and I don't drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality--fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers--and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world, or as close as I can get to it.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”