Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Most of my reading is rereading.
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .