I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.