“I don't want to lose her.I don't want to give up the blissful feelings I have whenever I am near her.”

“I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material.”

“I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.”

“I wanta go to Tangiers, I want girls, Iwanta write the biggest book in the world,I want spring to come, I want, I want--Wanting, I get; getting, I lose; losing, Isuffer; suffering, I die--NOT WANTING, I DON'T GETNOT GETTING, I DON'T LOSENOT LOSING, I DON'T SUFFERNOT SUFFERING, I DON'T DIE SUFFERING.”

“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt, and indeed I know that it was being unfair to her, for what she said was simply the truth.”

“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”