Joseph Conrad II

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

We live as we dream--alone....

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

The horror! The horror!