“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.”
“There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.”
“In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.”