A Single Man

by Christopher Isherwood

To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.

Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.

“No, Charley, I mean it. The past is over. People make believe that it isn’t, and they show you things in museums. But that’s not the past. You won’t find the past in England. Or anywhere else, for that matter.”

George makes himself remember. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if he wants to go on living. Jim is death.