34 quotes found
“She was so beautiful I had to move away.”
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your f...”
“The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.”
“I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.”
“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”
“With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever re...”
“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”
“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”
“Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?”
“Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.”
“The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.”
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
“Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.”
