“If untruths become part of our languageuntruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speechthen each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning...”

“Morality doesnt exist in space, only in the spaces between people.”

“When you look at it objectively, thats what most colonists dothey land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was perm...”

“The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.”

“If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meani...”

“It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.”

“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?”

“It's all rather political, mourning is.”

“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didnt have a chance to grow.”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire l...”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”