Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.