Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

Life is what it makes you.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.