To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.