“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”

“And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.”

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

“The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”

“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”