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

Most real relationships are involuntary.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

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.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.