“The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.”

“That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.”

“One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.”

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”

“The physical shock took away the pain of being.”

“Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.”

“Time makes us pointless.”