I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.