“Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?”

“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.”

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter. One had to protect from the onslaught of wasted words the silent place deep inside oneself, where all the pieces could be arranged in a logical manner, where the opponents abided by the rules, where even if you ran out of possibilities there might be a way to turn defeat into victory.”

“Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.”

“Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.”

“Home is where somebody notices your absence.”