Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.