Yu's Blog: a sinking arsonist , page 58

"I was so afraid of dying - + only that book gave me some consolation, some fortitude."

“I was so afraid of dying - + only that book gave me some consolation, some fortitude.”...

"No German papers except Bild-Zeitung, with a screaming New Year’s headline,..."

“No German papers except Bild-Zeitung, with a screaming New Year’s headline,...

"That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the world..."

“That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the...

"When people asked you, What do you want to be when you grow up? You said, A cloud pusher."

“When people asked you, What do you want to be when you grow up?
You said, A cloud...

"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing."

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same...

"And suddenly I realized I was truly alone and had nothing to do but feed myself and rest and amuse..."

“And suddenly I realized I was truly alone and had nothing to do but feed myself and rest and...

"And it was all mine, not another human pair of eyes in the world were looking at this immense..."

“And it was all mine, not another human pair of eyes in the world were looking at this immense...

"When I went back in the moonlight to my same old tree stump the world was like a dream, like a..."

“When I went back in the moonlight to my same old tree stump the world was like a dream, like...

"It all ends in tears anyway."

“It all ends in tears anyway.” - The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

"Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we..."

“Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard...