Most real relationships are involuntary.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

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

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.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

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

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.