How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

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

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

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.