There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

the history of melancholia includes all of us.