“We are bound by the secrets we share.”

“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”

“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”

“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.”

“I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.”

“Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.”

“When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.”