A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.