And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience