A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.