Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.