“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”

Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)

On debating the reactions of her readership in “Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I wanted everything turned up a little too high’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/26/hanya-yanagihara-i-wanted-everything-turned-up-a-little-too-high-interview-a-little-life in The Guardian (2015 Jul 26)

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

As quoted in The Making of a Muckraker (1979) by Jessica Mitford, p. 113

Source: Echo

Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Source: The Sun Also Rises

Runaway
Lyrics, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: Creeps, bums and a foot in the mouth: Some of former premier Ralph Klein’s more colourful moments http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/creeps-bums-and-a-foot-in-the-mouth-some-of-kleins-more-colourful-moments/