I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.