And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

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

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.