It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

High school was great when it ended.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.