I'm Really Not Responsible For What Mental

It's No Use Imagining That Bringing Great Writers Together Inevitably Precipitates Great Conversation.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.

Proust Is A Hero Of Mine. I Read 'a La Recherche' In One Go, And I'm A Very Slow Reader. It Had An Astonishing Impact, Reading It On My Own And Being My Main Company. I Think Proust Is The Most Intelligent Person To Ever Have Written A Novel.

Everything Was Usual. That Was Depression: Being Stuck, Clinging To An Out-of-date Version Of Oneself.

Looking After Children Can Be A Subtle Way Of Giving Up... They Become The Whole Ones, The Well Ones, The Postponement Of Happiness, The Ones Who Won't Drink Too Much, Give Up, Get Divorced, Become Mentally Ill. The Part Of Oneself That's Fighting Against Decay And Depression Is Transferred To Guarding Them From Decay And Depression. In The Meantime One Decays And Gets Depressed.