There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.