“Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.”

“Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.”

“I'm so romantic
I'm such a passionate man
Sometimes I panic
What if nobody finds out who I am?”

“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”

“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

“I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. … I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.”

“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.”

“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”

“I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?”