Nicholas Mosley

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...”

“What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?”

“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.”

“But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing.”