The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.