Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good.” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.