The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.