Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.