Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Is there any soul without any struggle?

To love can mean 'to love oneself, ' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.