Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

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

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

we walk the plank with strangers.