Sensations Quotes

I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a crowded room, screaming at the top of my lungs, and no one even looks up.

I like snow. It makes me feel safe.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

Time. We can't see it, we can't hear it, we can't weigh it, we can't measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of becoming what we are instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond.

I showed him my toys, my noose setup, among other things. It's a way you sort of hang yourself, but not really. It feels good while you... Well, you know.

People are afraid when they can't link a feeling with another one.

I sense...space. A kinda latitude of what we happily call reality, in which, as everybody keeps saying... anything's possible.

Do people have to kill each other to — give them a heightened sense of life?

— I'm going to eat food with a man, yes.
— How do you feel?
— Oh, um, well, you know, when you're holding a hot cup of coffee and you realize you're going to sneeze? That's how I feel.

— If only it'd been a masterpiece. No, a pleasant little tune, almost banal but that makes you want to stop, look around, seize the moment. That makes you see life the way it should always be. Beautiful. You know? Complete strangers all smiled at me like they understood my joy at seeing life the way I see it, thanks to music.
— They smiled because you smiled.
— I wasn't smiling. I mean, I was smiling, thinking about what I was feeling, experiencing, what music brings to my life.