“How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?”
“The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?”
“Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens.” My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer’s,”
“If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it”
“If you are lucky you will find something you love doing, if you're really lucky you'll find someone to pay you to do it”
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
“We’d never know what was real and what wasn’t about each other. That was the beauty of our shared fiction.”
“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
“Relationships are about sacrifice and compromise. Sometimes, to have the person you want, you have to give up ideals that are important only because society tells us they are.”
“A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.”
“The cause of suffering is desire,”
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