How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

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

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.