“Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul”

“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.”

“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”

“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.”

“after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.”

“Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.”

“I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”