It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.