Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.