I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

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

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

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