You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.

all this Beethoven and rain

Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.