Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?