Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.