The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.