“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

“If my hair was on fire and llamas came to put it out, he'd tell me the shot was great.”

“So, what if everything in life is an illusion? Well, choose your illusion; Don't let it choose you.”

“A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday”

“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”

“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does, all the lives they've hoarded, all the ghosts they've carried, all the inversions they've made for protection, all the scars and marks and records for recognition - the whole heterogeneous baggage falls out with each step on the pavement. There's so much spillage.”

“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.”