I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.