If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

I'm afraid love is just a word.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.