You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
Being wrong about important things is exhausting.
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.