Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.