Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.