Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body.

I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must forget their voices, their smells, their demands, their love, their hate, and be myself, I must be myself, I told myself, as i gazed down at the legs resting so happily on the stool, and I told myself again as I looked up to watch the smoke I'd blown up to the ceiling; I must be myself, because if I failed to be myself, I become the person they wanted me to be; if I had to be that insufferable person, I'd rather be nothing at all. It would be better if I didn't exist,...

Old friends are best.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

If I were to modernize the script, I would have betrayed [the play's] existence.