It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
Self knowledge is always bad news.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
Youโre probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.
The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.