In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

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.

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

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

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