...I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? ...I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe…

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

I realized a capacity for not feeling lonely carried a very real price, which was the threat of feeling nothing at all.

Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious…