Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

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.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

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

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