'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.