Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

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.

No idea with who has no idea

I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, " Beranabus grunts.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.