Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.