I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.