Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?