You can't find peace by avoiding life.
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.