For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
Language is memory and metaphor.
She did not so much cook as assassinate food.
Hope is a talent like any other.
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself – except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old – the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.
The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
All pornography is to a degree sadistic – inevitably.
My mind is not suited to go much into company.