One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

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.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

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.

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

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.