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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.