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But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.
If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.
Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.
My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.
It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.