“Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary?”

“There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.”

“The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.”

“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”

“bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why did longing and desire, and friendliness and goodwill too, have to shatter into pieces? Why did they have to be so thoroughfully over?I could make myself cry even more by repeating the key word: love,alone, sad, over. I did it on purpose.”

“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”

“He throws out radiance, it must be reflected sun. Why isn't everyone staring?”