He told me that he didn’t much care what he did during the day as long as he could drink at the end of it.

Beneath the zeitgeisty affectations he was an old school creepy letcher photographer guy.

He had a hard time listening to people whose voices sounded as if they knew they were likable.

He had attempted to make great art, always a mistake.

She told him that people with high self-esteem lacked imagination.

The part that makes assumptions is the dumbest part of your brain.

He received the crushing news with a resignation born of decades of unrealized hopes.

He referred to his projects rather ecumenically as items. Although each was minutely embedded in particularity, the overwhelming force of his attention rendered them in some sense uniform.

World’s longest book: insults you haven’t forgotten.

Courage when you have none
Endurance when you have none
Patience when you have none
Kindness when you have none

In the harmonious spaces and bright clear sunlight of this elegant house, you feel an acute awareness of how coarse and awkward you’ve become. If only the light could pass right through you.

Thoughts: semi-organized gibberish.