People always get used to beauty though.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.