Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.
You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
