Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

History takes time. History makes memory.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Near a war is always not very near.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.