The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.