For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.