I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

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

I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

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

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.