Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

---

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

---

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

---

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

---

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

---

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

---

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

---

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

---

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

---

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

---