I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.