The things that make life comfortable are always unacceptable, if you look at them square on. Someone, somewhere, is always suffering so you can be happy. Which is why most people spend their time looking the other direction

We are younger and thinner than I remember ever feeling. We look so clean. As if we mean no harm. As if we are not harm itself.

There is no past or future: when we think of the past, our memories occur in the present; when we imagine the future, we only do so from the standpoint of the present.