Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.