Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.