I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.