“I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.”
“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies”
“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.”
“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”