The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.