Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.