I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

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

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

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.