We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Love is a joint experience between two persons – but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Next to music beer was best.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.