“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”

“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”

“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”

“In real love you want the other person's good.”

“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”

“My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.”

“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Child...”

“Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the ...”

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.”