“If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.”

“Yesterday I was clever,That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise,That is why I am changing myself.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“I am myself and I am here.”

“I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.”

“I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am...self-centered and careerist and not true to standards and values that transcend my own petty interests...but then I countenance the fact here at least here I am worrying about it; so then I feel better about myself...but this soon becomes a vehicle for feeling superior to imagined Others...I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am--so where does that put me.”