He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said. I had forgotten I was still holding the book. - Céline, I said back in a whisper. - I love that book. - I'm only halfway through. - Have you got to the point where -- - Hey, kill me, but don't tell me the end!

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.