You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

This one's for Alaska Young!

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.