The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Each friend represents a world in us.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.