niko

trying to own a word would be futile, like attemping to lay claim to the alphabet. but oh how possessive i can get over a string of them, for words are like stems of ideas in bloom

“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”

When you’re the boss and regression is your daily defense mechanism at the office...

How the signs are feeling

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

““Sometimes I feel,” said Roland carefully, “that the best state is to be without desire. When I really look at myself—” “If you have a self—” “At my life, at the way it is—what I really want is to—to have nothing. An empty clean bed. I have this image of a clean empty bed in a clean empty room, where nothing is asked or to be asked.”

“We’re wrong. We’re not ourselves, we’re not in ourselves, and we’re never where we ought to be.”