Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.