"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."

"No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form."

"The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss."

"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything."

"One should be light like a bird and not like a feather."

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."

"We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet."

"Living like this is a full-time business."

"When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again."

"Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up."

"But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer."

"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."

"It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way."

"I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge."

"Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working."

"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."

"Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port."

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time."

"I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right"

"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."

"The way I lived, I grew up in a time where people would take your shoes, they'll take your jacket, they'll take your cheese without a gun. So people would jump on you - this was like fourteen, fifteen years old. So it always taught me that you gotta have your crew, in some ways you gotta move, don't put your self in harm's way, and definitely if you're a street dude and want any kind off credibility, don't put yourself under the mercy of anybody else, or you'll be at their mercy; they can do what they want to do to you."

"I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man."

"There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them."