As long as one suffers one lives.
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.