I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.