I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.