necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than being the victim of change

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He started crying. Not for himdelf, for her. He'd rescued her from her lousy life, and now he was throwing her back. He felt like a shit for doing it, for things having to be that way, for not being able to gove her what she wanted. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her. The only part that wasn't in the manual, was her response: She started to laugh. Oh, give me a break, she said.

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.