It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.