If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.

There is no art without Eros.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

I live, like every real man, in my work.