“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”

“...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.”

“I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.”

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

“It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.”

“Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach,”