There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.