I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.