Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.