My mum always told me, 'Have something to fall back on' and I never really listened.
There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.
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?
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a guy who did this for his first time, he didn't do too bad,' and some people will be like, 'Rich Franklin sucks. ' It doesn't matter what you do, you will always have people on every side of that spectrum, so I would imagine for me it wouldn't be any different.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
There is time in life for everything.