Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

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