Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

To enter your true self, check your ego at the door.

You are organic, aren't you? Or am I talking to a statue again?

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.