Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.