There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.