"In a short time
this will be a long time ago"
"Despite these recent events, Philip was incapable of experiencing happiness. He counterbalanced his feelings of love and productivity with periods of extreme isolation, sometimes finding that days on end had passed since last leaving the house. Shortly after the rush of severing ties with those he believed to be poisonous to his mental health, Philip was too crippled with anxiety and dread to go outside for the better part of a week. Philip had harbored increasingly romantic notions about what this period in his life would mean, until one day, a few months before the publication of his second novel, he abruptly became confidently disenfranchised to the point of despondency."
"You know how, like in cartoons, when the building gets hit by the wrecking ball, right before the building falls down, there's always like this moment where it's perfectly still right before it collapses? We're in that moment. The wrecking ball has already hit all of this, and this is just the moment before it all falls down."
"I don't want to talk about this, Doc""Then write about it""You said yourself, writing about it brought you solace""Yeah, well it didn't bring anyone else much solace"
"Life is Easy"