It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.