To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.