"Eyeless in Gaza" Quotes

One thinks one is going to be able to forget, and then one thinks one has forgotten; but it never works out.

Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything?

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat.

A belief in hell is not incompatible with optimism. Only the man who believes in hell can be a true optimist.