Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

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

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

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

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.

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

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