Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
