"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

"I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity"

"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."

"Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."

"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."

"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."

"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."

"Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being."

"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."

"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

"One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"

"Without literature, life is hell."

"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"An artist is a person first."

“She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.” 

I miss writing, creating, and working on bigger projects. YES to that means NO to any games of whack-a-mole.

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”