When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird