Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

We have art in order not to die of life.