She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze..

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside.

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

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing..

Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural f….

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….

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that ….

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart tod….

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There'….

That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doub….

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and ….

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….

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

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

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….

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that t….

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

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade..