Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.