memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Long live the new flesh.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.