However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.