You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Memory narrativises itself.