You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?