Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!