Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.