Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

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

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.