If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
As much as I dream, I have nightmares.
A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?".
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.
Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.