Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true. ' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.
Madness has no sense of humour
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
I had a fear of being alone.
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.
His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.
Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.