The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Windows are the eyes of the soulless

A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.