You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.