“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?”

“Sex is like art: if you know what youre doing, you dont know what youre doing.”

“Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.”

“I dont like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”

“The past looks worse the closer you look at it.”

“Old age is the new childhood.”

“I may be naked, but my thoughts are still hidden.”

“Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.”

“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”