Thinking, Writing Are Ultimately Questions Of Stamina.

The Problems Of This World Are Only Truly Solved In Two Ways: By Extinction Or Duplication.

It Is Easier To Endure Than To Change. But Once One Has Changed, What Was Endured Is Hard To Recall.

As Objects Of Contemplation, Images Of The Atrocious Can Answer To Several Different Needs. To Steel Oneself Against Weakness. To Make Oneself More Numb. To Acknowledge The Existence Of The Incorrigible.

Death Is Unbearable Unless You Can Get Beyond The I.

Growing Older Is Mainly An Ordeal Of The Imagination-a Moral Disease, A Social Pathology.