I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

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

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

Yelling is a form of publishing

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.