Lawrence Durrell

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.