These are some quotes I really like:

If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you be?

I've heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

When writers are in love they don't write.

Character is easier captured than recovered.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The cemetery is full of brave men.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

In Montreal the cafes, like a bed of tulip bulbs, sprout from their cellars in a display of awnings and chairs. In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating The winter has not killed us again.

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection. Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make the correction.

This might be what is called selling out. Let me just say I'm in love with selling out. I think its fucking wonderful.. Ramen and banannas [sic] are really tasty but they do not a healthy girl build...

What I like about zombies is that they're so interested in brains. In our culture, we're so superficial, we're always looking at appearance and there's just so little attention paid to education. To have a bunch of people going around just yelling brains all the time it's just like "Thank you." That's the wake up call I think we need.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

She started talking, her breath in my ear and she just went on and on and talked faster and faster, she couldn't stop. And I loved it. I just felt that all that life in her was running into me, too. I had so little life in me.

You're still the one pool where I'd happily drown.

I walked west to make the night last as long as it could.

I'm probably the smartest person I know.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Families are always rising and falling in America.