The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

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