Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!