Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.