Being In Love Is An Exhausting Business.

The Absolute Yearning Of One Human Body For Another Particular Body And Its Indifference To Substitutes Is One Of Life's Major Mysteries.

We Shall Be Better Prepared For The Future If We See How Terrible, How Doomed The Present Is.

In Philosophy If You Aren't Moving At A Snail's Pace You Aren't Moving At All.

Time Can Divorce Us From The Reality Of People, It Can Separate Us From People And Turn Them Into Ghosts. Or Rather It Is We Who Turn Them Into Ghosts Or Demons. Some Kinds Of Fruitless Preoccupations With The Past Can Create Such Simulacra, And They Can Exercise Power, Like Those Heroes At Troy Fighting For A Phantom Helen.

Food Is A Profound Subject And One, Incidentally, About Which No Writer Lies.