My God-- life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?'
'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.'
'That's-- that's very good advice.' I went limp.

“And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "P…”

“The whore, who said her name was Sandra, offered me delights unobtainable outsi…”

“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, …”

“Take life seriously but none of the people in it.”