Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

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.´

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

We need time to lose interest in things.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.