Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.
Dialogue should show the relationships among people.
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.