Memory narrativises itself.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself . . . keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth." - St. Vincent

Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.