“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

“At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.”

“Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.”

“Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.”

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

“From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.”