“It is our noticing them that puts things in a room, our growing used to them that takes them away again and clears a space for us.”

“The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them.”

“We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.”

“It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.”

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”

“For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.”