Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.