“I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.”
“I am not going to waste time on revenge when my energy is better spent toward rebuilding.”
“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”
“I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.”
“I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.”
“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”