To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.