What is life without incompatible realities?

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.