Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Death was far more certain than God.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.