Life: I'll never understand it.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.