"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"I have always been a collector of strange things."

"I have read almost everything, and I have found nothing new."

"One day, we'll wake up and we'll be old. And we'll be happy, or we'll be sad, or we'll be dead. But we'll be old."

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."