No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.