Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.

It’s our memories that teach us who we are.

Never leave home without your memories.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.

At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.