It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That’s just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river’s murky waves.
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.
A man’s life is all he has. When you’re old, it’s all you’ll ever have.
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it