it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.