All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

Eat like you love your body.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.