Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.