Is there an existence that is only mine?.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself..

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart..

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in..

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it..

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly.….

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history..

I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head..

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore..

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone ….

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps ….

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense..

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to ….

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible..

Explorers have to be ready to die lost..

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show..

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Ha….

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited..

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hu….

An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers….