The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.