For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels.

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.