“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”

“Nothing against the law ever cease to exist.”

“It’s not so much that nothing meansanything but more that it keeps meaningnothing.there’s no release, just gurus and self-appointed gods and hucksters.the more people say, the less there is to say.even the best books are dry sawdust.”

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

“Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.”

“Why do you haggle your beauty?” I asked. “Why don’t you just live withit?” “Because people think it’s all I have. Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. Youdon’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you you know it’s forsomething else.”

“Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.”