...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.