Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
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.