May 2011
2 posts
Pure self-expression is only possible after one discovers that there’s nothing one must do, nothing one ought to do, and rarely even anything that one can do — and then, with whatever is left of the self, deciding what one will do.
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange...
