Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

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.