Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
And as we live our lives we discover – drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each – what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.
Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us.
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence – in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell – our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn’t solve a thing.
Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
While they’re still alive, people can become ghosts.
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience.
Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.
Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.
A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
Don’t let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to interfere with your life.