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 tell, therefore you are.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.