"Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage."

"Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, …"

"As to the First, methought I had some feeling in the Passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace…"

"Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion."

"I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!"

"She never had public favor; it was a bit like the Hillary Clinton thing. She did all the right things for h…"

"There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost th…"