Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

I am malicious because I am miserable

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.