The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.