Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

For the man who has got in the nasty habit of unmasking appearances, event and misunderstanding are synonyms. To make for the essential is to throw up the game…

Everything is deception - I've always known that. Yet this certitude has afforded me no relief, except at the moments when it was violently present to my mind.…

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself...