The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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?
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.
How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.