Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.