No one is going to show up and shake you up to force you to wake up. That first step, you’ll have to take it yourself. And all the others that will follow.

How does one get rid of one’s demons?

What? Life.

How unsettling it is to be fully awake and ready to go that early. The sun might not even be up sometimes. Very unsettling. I’ll just wait for a more decent hour to start doing things, like 11.

What one has been told since infancy, by anyone having had an influence, considerable or negligible, on one’s upbringing, a knowledge, beneficial or detrimental, now ingrained in one’s skull, against one’s better judgement, and society’s ascendancy.

Any table.

“I am not good at it,” said Isidore. “At what?” “Life.”