Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.