“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's "facts" and believe that winning was impossible.”

“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”

“Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.”

“I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.”

“I am a sensitive artist. Nobody understands me because I am so deep. In my work, I make allusions to books that nobody else has read, music that nobody else has heard, and art that nobody else has seen. I can't help it, because I am so much more intelligent and well-rounded than everyone who surrounds me.”

“…and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.”

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

“I have discovered motives, my own and everyone else's, to be impenetrable.”

“Once I became an adult, I finally began to get a sense of who I really am. I think that I developed my talents much, much more when I became an adult, actually when I got married.”