“If you care about something, you have to protect it.”
“Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own.”
“Keep passing the open windows.”
“Fear destroys what it wants to save.”
“You can't put a fence around life.”
“What most people consider virtue, after the age of forty is simply a loss of energy.”
“I don’t believe in belief.”
“To live sanely in London today, as one never could again later, one must be a bit mad.”
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.”
“You can't think yourself out of loneliness—you have to love your way out.”
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
“What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”
“Perhaps there was something waiting for me at the end of all this.”
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world.”
“Sometimes I think I can feel my memories waiting at the edges of things.”
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
“What I feel is not important. The important thing is to be true.”
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.”
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”