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

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

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

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.

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

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.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to