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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, tha...more

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I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours a...more

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With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close there...more

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Worse than madness. Sanity.

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His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.