History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.