We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.