When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

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

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.