“My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.”

“There was no good or bad connected with anything any more.......He regretted nothing; wanted nothing. He was simply existing, and the way things were was the way they had always been and always would be. He didn't care any more. He did what had to be done, and endured in a timeless present, without past or future.”

“Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.”

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.”

“Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.”

“My temper began to rise -- always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.”