All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.