Words, phrases and sentences to think about:
1. Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. ....he meant that now we all expect to understand the motivation behind each character's actions. Novels tend to lose their flavor because we are 'always supposed to infer causality.'
2. 'None of us knows how to deal with the aleatory nature of pain.'
3. 'If you think Madame Bovary commits adultery because she's trying to escape the banality of Pleistocene morals, then her betrayals are not yours.'
4. '...I do what makes me happy sometimes. I don't suffer from anhedonia after all.'
5. 'When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.'
