The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?