We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason..

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere..

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions..

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same..

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies..

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived..

Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. Th….

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair..

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the….

Most real relationships are involuntary..

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic..

A middling talent makes for a more serene life..

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate..

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins..

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real..

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes..

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe..

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers….

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals..

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear..

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself..