It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

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

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

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

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.