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.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

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.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.