Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

You can't grow and gain confidence from wearing the same thing every day.