Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.