I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.