I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.