“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”

“My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

“I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.”

“I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.”