Montauk

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

You can lose a woman when you have won her.

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.