There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.