I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

Change means the unknown.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Despair is part of love.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.