“ I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 are necessary to life. ”

“ Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ”

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

“ What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ”

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

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

“ There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ”