Andrew

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”
― Kabir

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace