When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.