How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.