I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

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.

I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.

I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

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