“I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.”

“I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.”

“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

“No particular reason for anything. I'm free - that's the main thing.”

“What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.”

“Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer.”

“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”