“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

“Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.”

“Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)”

“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.”

“My mind… It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.”

“What benefit will I get if I know one book from cover to cover? —Isn’t this filling my mind with the ideas of others and losing creativity?!”

“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”

“Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.”

“Some people, because their minds have gone so long without nourishment, lose their desire to eat and so do not notice the harm they are suffering.”