impermanence Quotes

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Every single moment is a coincidence.