Хората ме уморяват, дори мъжете.
Писането без въображение е труд за прехрана. Добър, ама труд. Ако обаче е само за да си вадиш хляба с него, тогава всъщност бих предпочел да съм дърводелец.
When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again—to avoid being bored.
Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.
To be consistent, those who argue that abortion is unnatural would have to say: no penicillin, no lightning rods, no eyeglasses, no DDT, no radar and so on.
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
Ivy was a model, she chose her clothes to match the color of the car, I think, and the color of the car to match her lipstick or the other way around, I’m not sure which it was.
In Florence I rebelled and told her that frankly I thought her Fra Angelico rather mawkish. Then I corrected myself and said naive. She didn’t deny it, on the contrary, she was delighted; it couldn’t...
Freunde müssen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Brüder sind immer Brüder.
Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genügt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genügt ein Lächeln....
Only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.
Сякаш се сгромолясваш през огледало, когато се събудиш, нищо друго не помниш, сякаш се сгромолясваш през всички огледала, а сетне светът отново се сглобява, все едно нищо не се е случило. А и нищо не...
Като всеки истински мъж аз живея с работата си. Нещо повече, нямам нужда от нищо друго и смятам за щастие факта, че живея сам – по ме мнение това е единствената възможна форма на съществуване за един...
On the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.
There is no physical injury, unless the abortion is carried out by a quack; if there is any psychological injury it is only because the person in question is dominated by moral or religious ideas.
The ladies’ mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats—they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn’t say it.
JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche für unser Gespräch, so bin ich bestürzt: daß ich vor zwei oder fünf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin –...
Ich verdanke dir mein Leben. Ich weiß. Wenn du Wert darauf legst, ich kann es jeden Tag einmal sagen: ich verdanke dir mein Leben (...) Du ekelst mich (...) Geh pissen (...) Heul nicht deinen Schnaps...
Ich habe nie einen ernsthaften Versuch unternommen, meinem Leben ein Ende zu machen; auch keinen unernsthaften. Ich habe nur oft, in jedem Lebensalter, dran gedacht.
I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing...