You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.