Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.