Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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