Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.