Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live.

“Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside…”

“I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions…”

“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go o…”

“Probably we’d have been better off born in nineteenth-century Russia. I’d have …”