“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

“It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.”

“It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.”

“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”

“Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.”

“What you get is no longer what you see.”

“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”