Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.