It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!