"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so..." — Angela Carter

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.