For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen.

“ne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, an…”

“For one day as I leant over a gate that led into a field, the rhythm stopped: t…”

“Ora abbandonerò tutto; ora mollerò gli ormeggi. Ora libererò il desiderio frena…”