As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
Clearly the secret of happiness. . . is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.
. . . it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.
Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.
"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.
To understand is to invent.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Did you do that? (Simone) Sometimes my powers work. Sometimes they don’t. Looks like this time they did. Yea, us. (Xypher)