"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."
"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."