The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.