The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature..

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary..

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations..

The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grim….

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of t….

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fa….

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation….

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as n….

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, wh….

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out..

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west..

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, d….

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, mo….

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above..

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another..

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..

The soul is the weariest part of the body..

No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massag….

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - th….

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpat….

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small..