And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.