I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
Hardship makes the world obscure.
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.