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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados so you can later claim to have survived them.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
There’s a kind of sadness in the air, but it’s a sadness that makes you feel alive.
It’s funny. The things that are most important to you are often the hardest to talk about.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
