Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.