“My old skill at self-delusion overrode my doubts as I told myself that Dexter probably believed in me. I could believe anything then. I still can as long as it is improbable.”

“I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.”

“Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”

“She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.”

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

“We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.”

“Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.”

“My loneliness is killing me (and I)
I must confess, I still Believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign!
Hit me Baby One More Time!”

“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”