I never wish to be easily defined.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.