“Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.”

“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”

“If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.”

“{I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind)”

“I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.”

“If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to make it?”

“I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.”