If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

What do they teach them at these schools?