"The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness."

"By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life."

"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."

"When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching."