Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.