"Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word."

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

"I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this."

"It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way."

"Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that's what I am experiencing right now."

"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

"Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves."

"But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer."

"An experience is richest not talked of."

"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."

"How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters."

"Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off."

"Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations."

"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out."

"When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions."

"You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark."

"But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."

"Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable."

"You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue."

"The exercise of power is a dangerous delight."

"How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners."

"He dreamt...he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was."

"I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love."

"There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off."

"Love is no respecter of ages, everyone knows that."

"To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate."

"The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains."

"Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child."

"Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision."

"But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it."