Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.