Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
My heart was beating like an army on the march.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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.