Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Love, too, was just a question of time

The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?