Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

All human existence is a trick of light.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?