At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.