“Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.”

“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”

“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”

“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.”

“I don’t know how I stay alive. What I do know is that there is a light, far above us, that goes out when we die,and that in Hell there is a gray tulip that grows without any sun. It reminds me of everything I failed at,and I water it carefully. It is all I have to remind me of you.”

“Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love”

“My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.Of course.”