Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.