"When I think back to then, from out of this sepulchral silence, I am aware of a ceaseless hubbub of voices loudly say…"

"Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance."

"I was pondering the question, which I have pondered before, of whether such great revelatory moments really so occur,…"

"I have tried to explain to her that the concept of bravery is entirely spurious. We are what we are, we do what we do."

"Ah, what heights of contempt I was capable of in those days! Now, in old age, I have largely lost that faculty, and I…"

"I have always disliked the sea, its surliness, its menace, its vast reaches and unknowable, shudder-inducing depths."

"Diderot said that what we do is, we erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves—idealised, you know, but still r…"

"But what comfort does belief offer, when it contains within it its own antithesis, the glistening drop of poison at t…"

"I suspect that significant first encounters only take on their aura of significance in retrospect."

"I would have failed, of course, but failure is the condition of the artist's life. What kind of failure would I have …"