Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

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