She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.