The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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