Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.