Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.