... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

The blizzard doesn't last forever

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Tell me, if I take you to my room and put you in my bed, what do you think would happen?""I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

If we control the ball, they pay.

My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.