The Utility of a Meaningless Life

1.

: You don't deserve my love.
: I know. Who wants love when they're full of carnal hunger?

2.

: What is it you lack? Tell me.
: I have everything. There's no greater poverty than having it all.

3.

: Eid Mubarak!
: May the festival be yours. For me, it's just another day of struggling to keep myself alive.

4.

: I see you're writing harsh things these days. Have you eaten?
: The kind of writing that needs alcohol to be written—you go ahead and write that. I have no need for it.

5.

: Do you remember how much you were once mine?
: I was never anyone's. No one keeps gunpowder close to their heart.

6.

: So much laughter! Are you very happy?
: I'm afraid of that question—how are you. So I show joy instead.

7.

: Does writing require love, or lust?
: When you're born with the gift to write, you need neither.
: Then you must have great power!
: This very power has rendered me powerless.

8.

: I feel I'm dying of exhaustion.
: You may feel it, but you'll survive. Dying isn't so easy.

9.

: If a person owns nothing of their own, what do they do with this meaningless life?
: Make art. Make literature.

10.

: Has a rainbow ever come into your life?
: It comes and stands on the veranda often. I won't let it in.