“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”

“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”

“Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground”

“And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.”

“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”

“The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago”