Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

The Holy Spirit puts ideas into the heart of the believer

The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.