The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

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

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

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

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

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.