“But she wasnt the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you dont suffer alone, sad as that is.”

“He was right that I was afraid. But I didnt think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.”

“There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.”

“My brain is already scrambled enough.Cracked, I said, not thinking.Yeah. Moses scowled.Well, its working for you. I turned and looked at my walls. Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasnt crack...”

“I didnt know if his art was helping. But Mosess pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sa...”

“People who are afraid of the truth never find it.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”