“I doubt there is even a word in Afghani for peace. Nearest to it is probably a phrase that translates as “just getting my break back and reloading”

“And so it was that I became an anthology piece translated along with many others out of the French into your small arms though I am a phantom”

“I walk reciting every quiet word I know...”

“I have caught sight of my true friend rounding the hillside in his cloak of rain”

“When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all.”

“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think jokes even belong in proper books. I won’t bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.”

“Break-ups are survivable. It´s the aftershocks that get you.”