When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heardeverything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore.You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the w...
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at l...
When a man walks into a room and you shake hands with him, you do not feel that you are shaking hands with him. Death changes that. This is the body of X, not this is X. The syntax is entirely differe...
What else we know?Nothing. That´s why we´re sitting together in this car now. Because we´re the same, and because we don´t know a damn thing other than that.
We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still...
Since all is plenum, all matter is connected and all movement in the plenum produces some effect on the distant bodies, in proportion to the distance. Hence every body is affected not only by those wi...
Real love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
Peace on earth, good will toward men. Piss on earth, good will toward none.
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.
On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized tha...
Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr....
Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier back...
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
He aquí el dilema, por un lado queremos sobrevivir, adaptarnos, aceptar las cosas tal cual están; pero, por otro lado, llegar a esto implica destruir todas aquellas cosas que alguna vez nos hicieron s...
Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush? Honey asks. No one says a word. Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.
But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.
But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well to...
Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashedagainst the stones.