"Even Damocles developed a routine."
"This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch."
"Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate."
"His suffering was no more real than he was."
"I stare out at the real world projected on the windows"
"Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins."
"For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are."
"It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them."
"You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge."
"I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this."
"Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?"
"I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway."
"Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is."
"Stories are just lies made to look like truth."
"Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering"
"Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script."
"I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice."
"The future is certain. It is just not known."
"All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable."
"Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around."
"Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book"
"Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness"
"In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link."
"Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again."
"I’m a bit-part actor in my own life"