“Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?”
“But the pain, the memories--those were the toughest. They'd come at you out of nowhere.”
“We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.”
“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”
“I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.”
“How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!”