If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.