Clark

“What harm has he ever done to you?'
'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“That 99 of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves that 99 of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them and then weirdly that if they stop to think about it that 100 of the things they spend 99 of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences are never good. Then that this connects interestingly with the early-sobriety urge to pray for the literal loss of one’s mind. In short that 99 of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity