Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.