People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.