Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.