“It never occurred to me to say no.”

“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“Miracles occur,If you dare to call those spasmodicTricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again,The long wait for the angel,For that rare, random descent.”

“Eternity bores me,I never wanted it.From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962”

“I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.”

“If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.”