On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.