There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

Death is the room that is always empty.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.