“Whoever reads ceases to live. Go ahead, do it. Stop living, and read. What is life after all?”

“There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.”

“I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans?”

“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”

“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

“I need clean new people who associate me with fun. This is my number two problem: I am never satisfied with what I have. It goes hand in hand with my number two problem: rushing. Maybe they aren’t so much hand in hand as two hands of the same beast. Maybe they are my hands; I am the beast.”