Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.