“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”

“It looks like its wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to ...”

“A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as hed hit sixty hed hold his hand out the window,cupping it around the wind. Hed been assuredthis is exactly how a womans breast feels w...”

“It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia t...”

“A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as he’d hit sixty he’d hold his hand out the window,cupping it around the wind. He’d been assuredthis is exactly how a woman’s breast fee...”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”