“ Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ”

“ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ”

“ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ”

“ Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ”

“ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ”

“ Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ”

“ The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ”

“ Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ”

“ How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. ”

“ Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. ”