We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

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

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.