But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

I think I may well be a Jew.

They would grow old. They would forget me.