I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.