I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.