After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.

For how long will you continue to deal with the pain that comes with the grudges in your heart?

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.