The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.