In my very own self, I am part of my family.

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.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.