“There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive foraction or change.”

“...he found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.”

“Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.”

“…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.”

“A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”

“There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.”

“Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.”