Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes