Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.