I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.