There is always the other side, always.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.