A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.