"In the end, we are all just fragments of the stories we tell ourselves and others."
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
孤寂能产生独创精神,酝酿出一种敢作敢为、令人震惊的美丽的创作,也就是诗。但孤寂也会促成相反的东西,会养成人们不近人情、荒唐怪癖的性格,也会使人萌生非法之念。
You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life.