Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.