Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.