Phantomrites

“Our great American philosopher William James has said — ‘We have as many personalities as there are people who know us.’ To which I would add ‘We have no personalities unless there are people who know us. Unless there are people we hope to convince that we deserve to exist.’”

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

“But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master–something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.”

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“Nobody wants to do it- not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.”

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

“It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

“In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”