Author of quotes: Scarlett Thomas

Ann studiously avoids war movies, never read books with tragic end, not a charity looking gear (especially telethons "For life") and only occasionally turns on the news. When her aunt was diagnosed with cancer, Ann moved on to another channel. She suffered only abstract disease - of strangers, of minor characters. The main characters always get better, and even if the worst happens, the death screen is great, especially since its Directors themselves are dying. They have time to say the last words of wisdom, to make a bequest, please finally all who are dear to them. And when in a soap Opera someone dies, it almost immediately replaces with a new character.

Survival skill number one is the ability to hide fear.

Remember, two guys and a girl come to the hotel and somehow the hotel is full or something - they have to sleep three in one bed. And of course, the girl placed in the middle between the boys. In the morning the first guy says he saw the most incredible dream: his cock wanker beauty. The second says: "wow, what a coincidence! And I dreamed exactly the same dream." To this she replies, "All men are the same. But I saw the innocent dream - like roll skiing on wonderful snow-covered mountainside!"

... How it feels when your life is in essence, a black Comedy.

- You think about it! - Emily says. - There is nothing more boring person who all at once. And mysterious people is a class. Riding the subway, everyone in the car buried in the "evening standard", and one of someone reading a letter or Notepad writes. Him involuntarily pay attention because he's busy with a personal matter. Or when there talking on the phone - if it's loud, it's annoying, and whisper to Willy-nilly listen.

Whatever you do will return to you three times.

One person says to another: "How happy fish when frolic in the river!" The second man asks: "how do you know you're not a fish?" Then the first asks: "how do you know I don't know what fish think, because you are not me?"...

If you want to go to the moon, how you do? People can imagine that have built a rocket. The moth will crash into a light bulb.

The human mind can't conceive infinity as not able to accommodate the entire Universe or grasp the true meaning of life.

... life - in a sense, the test continues until you make a mistake.

To live forever is that to marry himself and not be able to get a divorce.

Monster becomes the only one whom we are taken for a monster.

That moves the wind or the flag? Two monks argue about it, and here it comes the wise man and says: "the Wind is not moving and the flag is not moving. Moving mind".

In the publishing environment, most conversations conversations resembled the Alzheimer's patients, because all too much thinking and too much reading...