My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?
Information is power. --Humfrey
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.
A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.