“Maybe he felt the need to suffer; maybe he felt the need to atone for those few hours of uncharacteristic abandon”

“Πιστεύουμε ότι ο κόσμος είναι κατανοητός μόνο επειδή μέσα στο κρανίο μας κρύβουμε ένα μηχάνημα που αγαπά τη σημασία και τη συνοχή. Υπάρχει ένα ευχάριστο κλικ ανάμεσα στη συγχρονικότητα των νευρωνικών δικτύων και ορισμένες αρμονικές δομές στην αντίληψή μας”

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into thebargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along with her. It hadnever felt like too much to ask for, but after three years of strugglingto write his dissertation, Tom finally understood that hedidn't have it in him to finish. Or, if he did have it in him, hecouldn't persuade himself to believe in the value of doing itanymore.”

“If I had your body, I'd stare at it for hours. Days, maybe.”

“A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!”

“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.”

“A crisscross of light and shadow began to form on the pavement in front of him, and it was a beautiful thing to behold, he felt, a small, unexpected gift on the heels of such sadness and pain.”