What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Only art means anything.