'Don't you want to join us?' I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. 'No, I don't,' I said.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by…

Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.

To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my …