I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.