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.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

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.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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

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.