Цитаты из книги An Accidental Man

...I never knew tow people so framed to do each other harm within the very context of their love. That they do greatly love each other is part of the paradox. p.180

It's better to be sick with love than just sick.

Her curiosity, her archness, her air of flirtatious affection, her appalling youth, grated upon his mood.

When one has momentously decided one does not want to be told that 'it doesn't matter'.

'You remember in the Iliad when Achilles' immortal horses weep over the death of Patroclus, and Zeus deplores the sight of deathless beings involved in the pointless horrors of morality?'

'Is the "holy"?'

'Yes. Gods can't really grieve. Men can't understand. But animals which are godlike can shed pure tears. I would like to shed pure tears. Zeus sheds none.'

Thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. And if you can't think the television set will think for you.

— Austin is a caution. — One can’t help admiring him. — Austin is like all of us only more so. — He gets away with it. — We’d all like to. — Everybody is justified somehow.

'So the novel was about you?' 'Yes, in a trivial way. The hero was me, I suppose all first novel heroes are the author.'

You may know a truth but if it's all complicated you have to be an artist not to utter it as a lie. Almost everything uttered is lies.

...she's always been resentful and trying to score.

Ony youth presevers some illusion of radiance because the ability to be surprised has not yet worn away.

Сознание – это своего рода киносеанс, где показывают один и тот же очень короткий фильм.

Сидя внутри, трудно представить себе дом снаружи.

И его депрессия подбодрила ее: часто бывает, что горе ближнего улучшает наше собственное самочувствие.