He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...