Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.