Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.