Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.