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

“ People living deeply have no fear of death. ”

“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ”

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

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

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

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ”