“Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!”

“To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life.
We is so much better than I.”

“Bacon tastes better than skinny feels.”

“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

“A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.”

“It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.”

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”

“Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.
Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.”

“Most writers have no other quality than the reader: taste. But the latter has the better taste, because he does not write - and the best if he does not read.”