The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
. . . You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.
What is real is always worth it.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.
People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.