Bam got up and had the menacing aspect of maleness a man has before the superego has gained control of his body, come out of sleep. - Nadine Gordimer

This idea that revolutionaries are martyrs who go around looking gloomy and noble, this is a romantic idea for people who've never met anybody who's gone through the experiences.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.