“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”

“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

“When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.”

“The time that I spend in hospital is so dauntingly real that it makes my activities and emotions outside of working hours feel childish and superficial, like a sitcom, a half-hour television comedy.”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

“I get up and decide to sneak out of my house and tiptoe up to his window. I've seen this done on TV so I'm sure it's easy.”