“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

“The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.”

“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”

“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

“Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.”

“In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.”

“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”

“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”