Who said “There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted…”?

“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”

“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”

“It takes two men to make a brother.”

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”