There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video game...
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.
There are no truly strong people. Only people who pretend to be strong.
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.
The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its o...
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests...
The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.
Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for...
Most of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden.
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.