And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

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

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.