“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. I'm not sure of the nature of my existence, and wonder to find myself writing.”
“Here I've been telling him things in my head for weeks, writing long, frenzied missives to him I know I'll never send, and now that I have him less than two feet away, I'm struck dumb.Fantastic.”
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box Man, p. 38)”