“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

“The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,”

“I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.”

“You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.”