Joseph Patterson

“she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe