Write about what you're afraid of.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.