I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist..

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed..

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending..

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end..

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is..

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me..

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases..

So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do….

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other..

He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be ….

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpe….

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say..

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying f….

The world is a never-ending cross-reference..

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair..