“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”

“...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called...”

“there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust”

“I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”

“He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself”

“None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”