"There must be candles."

"[W]hat possible objections can we have to anyone, anywhere, writing a book for children? After all, it's not terribly…"

"Respect is fatal, isn't it?"

"The competition between chunks of capital is getting fiercer, there is the same old same old desperate need to keep w…"

"I think human life is absurd. I think it is completely, utterly absurd. There is this planet and it's this tiny place…"

"He wanted to make a mirror. Glass, mercury and a wooden frame- the perfect mirror. But he was no good at it. So he we…"

"dear joe, your wild noisy huge brother is dead. I couldn't do what my parents did: bring two boys, four years apart t…"

"People are good," he said. "They'll all be good to you. Except one."

"I mucked about with his hair. His shoes were where he left them. His shoes are where he left them."

"You ask me how it's possible for me to carry on. I wonder if I look like someone who looks like it's possible to carr…"