To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

And joy is always a promise.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.