I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.