Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

I've always enjoyed poor health

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

The world is a penal institution.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.