Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future. - Muriel Rukeyser

Our dread of both relationships and loneliness.. has to do with angst about death, the recongnition that I am going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me. - David Foster Wallace