“For all of them told happenings like narrations, chronological and careful, as if the ear of the world listened and wished to know surely.”

“Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.”

“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”

“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”

“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”