One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.
I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
. . . painfully curious. . . about how it feels to fall.