A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.