"I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away."
"Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."
"The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important."
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."
"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."
"***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die."