Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The race was on

When you win nothing hurts.

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.