A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
Let’s all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we’ll find out who we are.