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

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.