The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.