Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

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

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

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.