I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

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And the rest is rust and stardust.

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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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