84 quotes found
“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
“Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system”
“For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.”
“If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to ...”
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
“A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there...”
“It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you th...”
“Or maybe thats what its all about: this religions substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.McLuhanesque?Hey, look, even...”
“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.”
“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.”
“You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding...”
“Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything”
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
“Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells”
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing...”
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.”
“The third dream was hard to put into words. It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there was a feeling of being in motion. Aomame was ceaselessly moving through time ...”
“Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.”
