The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.