The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.