Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

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.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.