Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.