Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

You can't. You just have to.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

The past is never dead. It's not even past.