The pain of failure – the pain of failure that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Why not make it for always?
When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference.
What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.
They want us dead. So we have to stay alive.
People are islands. They don’t really touch. However close they are, they’re really quite separate. Even if they’ve been married for fifty years.
In my job, when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It’s “live and let die”.
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that had made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face.[After BASHŌ, Japanese poet (1643-94)]