With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.

Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.