Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
To sleep is an act of faith.
The past can be tamed and controlled.
I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.