Children notice things first, people later.

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.