One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.