Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.