The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.