Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.