... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.