All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

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

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

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.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.