"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates that deserts that our lives have already become."
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
