She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?