A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

My greatest fear: repetition.

It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.