“Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.”

“Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”

“Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.”

“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. ”

“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”

“She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.”

“Is it a war we are fighting, a war against health, against life and love? My condition is a torn condition. Every day, the dispensing of existence. I see the face of suffering. Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.There's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel. A perfectly straightforward explanation. It is a mortal weariness. Maybe I'm tired of being human, if human is what I am. I'm tired of being human.”