Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.