Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

My parents and librarians along the way taught me about the space between words about the margins where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed in the friendliest way.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other always using friendly and sincere words.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets in the daily work of the communications media in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.