You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.