“I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.”
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
“I had been born in order to fillthe great need I had of myself.”
“I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. ”
“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”
“I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.”