It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at...

Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one’s romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one’s imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring...

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

… but he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest,...

On the third day Vera said:’I love your body because it is beautiful. But I do not know your soul. I do not know whether there is a soul. Nor is it necessary for me...

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters – even to the very belief in life.