“You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.”
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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and begin to realise, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.”
― Novel with Cocaine
― Novel with Cocaine
“Thanks to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.”
― Piercing
― Piercing
“I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
― And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
― And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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