The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

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.