I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.

I woke to the sound of rain.

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

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 taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness