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

“ 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 are necessary to life. ”

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

“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”