It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.