Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.