“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
“I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
“There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.”
“Oblivion was increasingly attractive, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking could even begin to solve the problem? It wasn’t even a problem, it was beyond a problem. It was more like a looming general collapse.”
A clean, well-lighted place. 