"Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."
"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."
"Few things are more deceptive than memories."