Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.