“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”

“We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.”

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.”