It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.