True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.