Bruno’s brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic. - Jonathan Lethem

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.