On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.