Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.