“All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.”

“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

“I have to admit that I am in a bit of a predicament." (opening line to 'The Dance of the Pheasodile' where the guy is hanging naked from a helicopter outside his wife's 18th floor office in Central London)”

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

“Human beings are stuck in a Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.”