Janet Frame

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.