Addiction—the one thing you can count on.

Messages on walls or mirrors, invariably perceived as more urgent than those typed on a computer.

Everything you think, feel, and say, compounded daily.

Cocktails on the lawn, alone.

For unknown reasons, they were willing participants in their own spiritual and psychological extermination.

Bombast: thoughts and images too great for subject.
Paralysis:

When you see someone you know on the street do you:
1) make contact
2) avoid contact
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When you’re in front of a mirror, do you:
1) look
2) avoid looking

He hadn’t done an honest piece of work since his unexpected success in 1968. Ego, more destructive than drugs or booze.