Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

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.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.