If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
We have really no absent friends.
Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.