“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

“Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else.It has always been like this.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”

“The swim of things. I go on an airplane. I walk under the Empire State Building. I take the bus, and the subway, and am surrounded by strangers the whole time. I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.”

“Do they sleep? I want to know...am I the only one who doesn't sleep?”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.”