As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...
To want is to have a weakness.
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else’s reasons.
So much better to travel than to arrive.
His mouth is on me, his hands, I can’t wait and he’s moving, already, love, it’s been so long, I’m alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
Anyway, maybe there weren’t any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we’re about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody – a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.
Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.