Myself - Quotes
My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I`m always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
It feels strange, and false, to be 21, and talk about myself as if I have a real concept of who I am.
That`s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
I always felt I had so many weaknesses myself that the last thing I should do was point out other people`s flaws to them.
I wonder why the promises I make to other people always become more important than the ones I make to myself.
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.