Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.