“I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.”

“The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”

“There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimesit would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...”

“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 know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”

“Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.”