The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Marvelous are the innocent.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.