Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

Opinion is the queen of the world.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.