“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ”

“ There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ”

“ A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ”

“ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ”

“ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”

“ Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ”

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