Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.