Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Happiness is never grand.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.