Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

I don’t know what it means to live.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical