I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

You fall in love with people's minds.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.