Your disease is dissent. Your kind of schizophrenia does not presuppose changes of personality noticeable to others. If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Eternity is a terrible thought.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. We cross bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered. It is a defect of God s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. I would have died for him but I never had the luck. I ll say anything to an interviewer I often give a frivolous answer to a serious question, which is kind of a lie.