I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.