Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
Literature + Illness = Illness
Reading is more important than writing.
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.