You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.