"I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you ca…"

"To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much…"

"So it was that my most impressionable years of boyhood were spent gazing at not a whale, but a whale's penis. Wheneve…"

"“What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “Tha…"

"We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown abo…"

"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and…"

"There are symbolic dreams—dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities—realities that symbol…"

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead i…"

"“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside o…"

"I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit sch…"