"I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything." - Lionel Shriver
"I am horribly timid. My romantic soul gets all clammy and shivery at the thought of running into some awful indecent unpleasantness." - Vladimir Nabokov
"I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The day slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop." - Michel Houellebecq
"How many people came and stayed a certain time, uttered light or dark speech that became part of you like light behind windblown fog and sand, filtered and influenced by it, until no part remains that is surely you." - John Ashbery
"If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid." - Amanda Grange