How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I’m enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?
How many children are really wanted? The fact that the woman would rather have it once it’s there is a different matter, an automatic reaction of the instincts, she forgets she tried to avoid it and a...
A race like these Mayas, who hadn’t discovered the wheel and built pyramids and temples in the jungle, where everything becomes smothered in moss and crumbles with damp—what for?
Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers and mothers and daughters or sons, lovers, etc., with individual souls,...
Аз не мога през цялото време да изпитвам чувства. Да бъда сам, за мене това е единствената възможна форма на съществуване, понеже нямам никакво желание да правя една жена нещастна, а жените проявяват...
Gefühle am Morgen, das erträgt kein Mann. Dann lieber Geschirr waschen!
Do you know, she said, that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It’s madly famous! I let her give me a lecture.
She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
I've often wondered what people mean when they talk about an experience. I'm a technologist and accustomed to seeing things as they are. I see everything they are talking about very clearly; after all...
A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound beings simply because they don’t know what electricity is.