“Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off.”

“What have you done to yourself? You look different - sort of sinister.''Good. I feel sinister.”

“I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.”

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]”

“I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.”

“I want to run or die or get fucked up. I want to be blind and dumb and have no heart. I want to crawl in a hole and never come out. I want to wipe my existence straight off the map. Straight off the fucking map.”

“I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”