I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

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

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

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