Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.