To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.