And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.