“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”

“One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.”

“While customarily splling coffee grounds all over the counter, I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“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.”

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”

“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”