“I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.”
“For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.”
“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails”
“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
“I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong”