There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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.