“Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.”
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“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”
“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”
“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
“I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.”
“my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.”
“I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.”
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
“The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.”
“That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.”
“The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.”
“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.”
“Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”
“Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.”
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
“In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.”
“This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.”
“You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.”
“During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.”
“(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.”