The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.