We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.