Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.