He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.