Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.