Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else

Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedurfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…

She brightened. 'Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want some…