If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.