If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.