“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”

“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)”

“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.”

“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”