Chuck Palahniuk. Diary (№ 403417)

You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. About Mozart and his uremia. About Paul Klee and the scleroderma that twisted his joints and muscles and led to death. Frida Kahlo and a split spine that caused bleeding sores on her legs. Lord Byron and his limp. The Brontë sisters with their consumption. Mark Rothko with his suicide. Flannery O'Connor with cutaneous tuberculosis. Inspiration needs sickness, injury, madness.