“This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too.”

“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.”

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

“I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”