The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

I am almost equal to a shadow.