I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

It didn't hurt my pride because I am Onew!

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.