It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Fear comes with middle age.

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