How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

There is never only one, of anyone

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.