At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.