The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.