Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

Genius requires an audience.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.