For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.