“- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.- But your yourself sucks!- It is, lamentably, all I have.”

“I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.”

“You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.”

“My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human. My previous track record tends to suggest that of all species that exist on the planet, it has so far been exclusively humans to whom I find myself sexually attracted. This is a good thing legally if nothing else.”

“Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.”

“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”