In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.