Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.