The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.