Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.