“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame, and self-loathing – they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. Without them, I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter, and all the mad intensities that made and unmade.”

“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame, and self-loathing – they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. Without them, I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter, and all the mad intensities that made and unmade.”

— Jacob Nordby