There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.
I’m trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That’s a big ambition of mine.
I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.
I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn’t do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.
The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn’t communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.
I try to write books that are different from the books I’ve already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
People call me all sorts of things. I don’t even care what they call me.
I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they’re given.
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.