“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

Federico García Lorca

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”

Anatole France

Get well, Mimi! Thinking of you.

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

“Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?”

Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.”

Alfred de Musset

“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”

Katherine Mansfield

“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”

T. S. Eliot

“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”

H.L. Mencken

“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”

Max Beerbohm