All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

Be as thou wast wont to be.

You are not who you think you are.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.