Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

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.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

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