What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.