“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.”
“Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own, we took on something of their personality, like crystals in a snowflake. Perhaps we became something more, yet something lesser than ourselves.”
“I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”
“I never met a person that I did not want to like”