It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.