Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.