I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.

We judge ourselves by our intentions

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

The movie of my life must be really low budget.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

I am myself. That is not enough.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.