The closing passage Tamir reads from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, about the darkness and walls of the well. The middle of the passage is left out here.
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Tonight at the Magic Theater, for madmen only, price of admittance, your mind, not for everybody.
You would be checked and blinded by it at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality.
An integrated person is not a person who simply eliminated the sense of guilt or the sense of anxiety from his life. He's a person who feels all these things but has no recrimination against himself for feeling them.
Nothing in this life should be taken at face value.
When you find out your existential kink and everyone's existential kink, it's no longer dark. It becomes fun. You can play with it because now you see yourself and you're not owned by that shadow any longer.
We are actually oftentimes, and I would say all of the time, the root cause of our own suffering. And I would take it a step even further to say that we actually get off on our own suffering.