Anushka

“Write about what you're afraid of.”
― Donald Barthelme

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“...my atoms, moreover, are arranged to make me constitutionally inclined to believe that where there's smoke there's usually strawberry Jello, seldom fire...”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations