Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.