One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own..

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power..

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes th….

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until….

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us..

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you..

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous..

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story..

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spitef….

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing..

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human si….

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be e….

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship..

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries..

Every artist is an unhappy lover..

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream..

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge..

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness..

The best thing about being God would be making the heads..