“Each couple is its own vaudeville act.”

“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”

“In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”

“In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.”

“What keeps a couple in harmony is to never lying to each other.”

“Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?”

“The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.”

“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”

“It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple”

“What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?”