Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

You can transmute love, muddle it, ignore it... but you can never pull it out of you...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.